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200,000 people attend Berlin's Rave The Planet parade

 Around 200,000 people hit the streets of Berlin on Saturday, July 9th, for Rave The Planet, the first event of its kind in the city in more than 15 years. Photo: Gm Hammond This was a very free parade , which featured over 100 DJs and a variety of floats from d ifferent crews and collectives.  Dr. Motte, the man responsible for Berlin’s first acid house parties in the late-1980s, and the Love Parade , co-founded Rave The Planet in 2020 to bring the massive street party back to Berlin for the first time since 2010.  "What a day. Unbelievable. We brought the spirit of the Love Parade back to Berlin. We did it, and with the best intentions. We, as the non-profit Rave the Planet organisation, worked long and hard on it. We all felt the rhythm and the bass in the streets of Berlin and the music brought us together." - said Motte to DJMAG. The last official L ove Parade in Berlin was in 2006. The events stopped worldwide several years later, after 21 people died in a crush

Berlin: The Love Parade returns in the heart of summer after a 16-year pause

 The last Love Parade in Berlin was held in 2006 with 1.2 million visitors , and the last Love Parade in general was held in 2010 in Duisburg with tragic consequences. Love Parade was a big, colorful celebration of electronic music and techno culture . Millions of people from all over the world gathered to dance on the streets of Berlin. Get involved and help with a donation to hold the Rave The Planet Parade on July 9, 2022. What remains, what will change? What remains the same is that the organizers are calling for demonstrations. Demonstrations are for the same values that brought the participants of the Love Parade to the streets: love, peace, friendship, solidarity, diversity, respect and of course music, music, music. There will be a parade through Berlin that presents a diverse variety of electronic music. What is changing is, for example, the name. The new parade is called "Rave The Planet Parade" . This takes over the original vision of the Love Parade, that one da

Rave The Planet Parade Promotes Techno Culture

  Exactly one year ago, Berlin’s Rave The Planet gGmbH (non-profit) was launched and is therefore celebrating its first small anniversary of existence.  Not a matter of course after a year like 2020.  Rave The Planet has already successfully received over 390,000.00 Euros in donations from over 24,000 people from all over the world. Among other goals, to realise a new parade in Berlin in the spirit of the original Love Parade. The non-profit organisation, which includes techno legend Dr. Motte, focuses on three major goals:  1. To protect, promote and develop the culture of electronic dance music in all its forms. And to develop it further. To promote its own as well as other charitable projects in the long term.  2. To classify the culture of electronic dance music as an Immaterial Cultural Heritage under the UNESCO.  3. To establish an official celebration of electronic dance music culture, with an annual event: A new parade, in the spirit of the Berlin Loveparade, based on its ori